Re:Periodic Table of Tools
by kbutler on Sunday November 26, 2023 @09:56AM
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Was I alone in expecting software engineering tools?
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It would probably be very interesting, since everything old is new. A column with RRD/Graphite/Grafana, inetd/systems/Kubernetes, fat/ext2/btrfs, Lustre/GlusterFS/Ceph, grep/ack/ripgrep
Re:Periodic Table of Tools
by 082349872349872 on Sunday November 26, 2023 @01:40PM
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If columns were arranged as "can be used as a quick and dirty substitute for" going up and "subsumes but is often overkill for" going down I guess we'd wind up with a Periodic Tree of Tools (with emacs and web browsers somewhere near the trunk)?
I indeed thought about software tools although not software engineering in particular. More like classic Unix tools.
Re:Periodic Table of Tools
by theodoregray on Sunday November 26, 2023 @11:25PM
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I wanted to include them. Believe me, I wanted to! My publisher felt strongly that I should not stretch the definition of tools into metaphor. Beds are tools: they help you sleep better. There's just too many narrow-definition tools I needed to fit in. Otherwise I would have been more than happy to including a dig about how Jupyter Notebooks are a poor imitation of my Mathematica notebook design.